Third in a nine month series
Hey remember the baby you spiritually adopted in March, well she is quite active in the womb now--although her mother won’t feel her for another couple months. If her mother’s womb had a window, you could watch your spiritually adopted baby squint, swallow and move her tongue. She can make a tight fist if you touch her palm. She is breathing amniotic fluid which will continue until birth, although she obtains the oxygen her body needs through the umbilical cord. The baby you are praying for weighs one ounce. Early this month—at just 9 weeks—she began to suck her thumb.
Psalm 139:14-16 beautifully expresses this miracle: “I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know. My bones are not hidden from you. When I was being made in secret, fashioned in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw me unformed; in your book all are written down; my days were shaped, before one came to be.” (Source: Archdiocese of Baltimore).
Guys—we didn’t forget you last week. We hope you had a blessed and happy father’s day and thanks for all you do for your family.
Written by Mike Roche’s father: Bill Roche, A parishioner of St. Mary Star of the Sea, Diocese of Venice
